Happiness Quotations | Page 2

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.

Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

When you have little children, you want to tell them about joy and happiness and hope. And then comes the time you want to tell them there are tough moments. I admire people who can do that.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.

You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.